Pussy Cat doll and Stephen Hall of the Respect Party
The
following article was posted by
Stephen Hall on the marxist and moslem
Socialist Resistance website.
"Master race, you’re having a laugh!” was just one of the many chants that taunted BNP Boot Boys, previously wielding crowbars, truncheons and baseball bats in Leigh town centre, as they were forced, under police protection, to tow away their wrecked Landrover, which was literally ‘hammered’ by a larger force of similarly tooled-up anti- fascists from the AFA. The AFA also over turned the Liverpool BNP Branch’s “Save Our Culture” trailer it was towing, which blocked traffic on St.Helens Road for almost an hour.
So much for the BNP’s ‘Battle for Britain’ Roadshow to raise money for aspiring Brit-Führer Nick Griffin’s Euro election campaign in the North West. Looking at the damage to their Landrover, that fundraising went into reverse in Leigh on the evening of Friday the 13th March 2009.
Having got wind of the anti-fascist mobilisation against their proposed ‘private fundraising event’ the previous day (the event was originally scheduled to take place at the Pure Night Club on West Bridgewater Street on Friday evening with Nick Griffin billed as the main speaker), the BNP leader failed to show his face in the town whatsoever. Indeed according to BNP sources, spoke instead at a St.Helens venue which is 7 miles away.
Whether he did or not is immaterial in reality. What we showed the BNP’s boot boys who did come to Leigh, is that any attempt by them to move into our area will be resisted and that they shouldn’t ever try and come back.
The response to the appeals issued by myself and others, from students from Salford University and the Salford Left Forum, United Against Fascism, the AFA and from local anti-fascists, including members of the Socialist Workers’ Party, Socialist Party, Community Action Party, Labour Party and Respect, at such short notice was tremendous, so much so in fact that the anti-fascist forces were able to successfully see off four of their nazi ‘flying’ storm troopers - who were just about to attack those assembling for the anti-fascist counter protest, and give their Landrover, trailer (and one of the BNP thugs) something of a ‘hammering’ in the process. They certainly left Leigh with their tails between their legs, with many shouting after them as they left “….and don’t come back!”
Well done everyone. Think we can rightly notch the whole thing up as a victory for our side.
Stephen Hall (Leigh - UNITE/Amicus Branch & South Lancs Respect
Party member)
Seems that Stephen is intend on digging himself a deeper hole. He should be careful that the walls do not cave in on him.
His letter calling on the red fascists to "
kick the BNP out of town", that many see has an incitement to violence has already been passed on to the appropriate authorities.
I understand that Stephen was actually videoed during the cowardly attack on the British National Party activists . Any chance of a copy?